On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:12 PM, James E. LaBarre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> > Interestingly my windows computer seems to be formatting it as FAT
> > whenever I have iTunes reset the thing between attempts.  At this
> > point I'm giving up on syncing directly with linux.  I spent about
> > four hours and the best I could come up with was Amarok,
>
> Interesting, as my own solution for iPod troubles with Linux is never to
> get an iPod.  Of course, my major reasoning is more along the lines of
> refusing to even consider a player that does not support Ogg Vorbis.
> And Apple has been adamant in their refusal to support Ogg, so I'm just
> as adamant that I will not buy an iPod.  (not that my non-purchase
> affects Apple at all <g>).
>

They don't support Ogg because it's more CPU-intensive to decode and would
have dropped battery life below acceptable thresholds.  But thanks for that
helpful contribution to solving John's problem.

-Jay
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